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Is the spoiler markdown broken?
Yes, they're broken. They've been broken in this particular way for a couple of years now. There's no neat workaround. One spoiler paragraph sitting in lonely isolation is always fine, but combining ...
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Why does inline math require \ before $?
Sometimes, when MathJax is added to a site when it's mature and has a lot of posts already, Stack Exchange staff chooses to use \$ delimiters instead of ...
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Why does inline math require \ before $?
Because when we added MathJax to the site, Stack Exchange staff decided to use \$ as delimiters rather than $ because many posts ...
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How long has [tour] automatically linked to the tour page?
As far as I can tell, comment shortcuts have been around since basically forever.
The [tour] link got added sometime soon before June 6, 2014 (officially confirmed on June 11†), a short while ...
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Does using numerous whitespace characters to center a line of text cause accessibility issues?
Irrespective of accessibility, it just isn't a good solution in general.
Checked my own post on my phone, and using doesn't work; it was aligned in the ...
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Is it possible to have spoiler text in subscript?
Re order the tags:
>! <sub>subscript spoiler</sub> | normal spoiler
The line needs to start with >!. You can ...
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We have CommonMark
Good news, but please edit your old questions as we normally do.
I'm seeing a lot of edits come through that should probably be spaced out over time so that the active page isn't flooded.
Before you ...
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Does using numerous whitespace characters to center a line of text cause accessibility issues?
Unless formatting is important, don't quote formatting
A general rule in quoting is, that formatting is not taken from a text unless it is important. Importance is usually only afforded to properties ...
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Does using numerous whitespace characters to center a line of text cause accessibility issues?
This is zero issue for screenreaders
A screenreader will just treat all those spaces as a space and move to the next text it has to read aloud, so it won’t cause any problems for those who rely on ...
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Is there a way to test posts or formatting?
We don’t have one here on RPG, but you can use the sandbox on meta.se.
You mentioned tables sometimes being broken; this issue is documented in this bug report on meta.se, I'll reproduce the entire ...
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Is there a way to test posts or formatting?
The Meta SE formatting sandbox is a great option for testing formatting in a live post. However, it does not do MathJax. If you feel the need to experiment with posting MathJax you could borrow a ...
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